Starting in the project

Starting in the project

[Eduardo]

Hi, I'm trying to enter in kernel janitors project to learn more about
kernel and to be a developer.
I'm in TODO page, but I don't know where to start. It's being a kind
of weird at first glance to me.
There is some task easy to do for me to start?


Thanks
Eduardo Oliva

Re: Starting in the project

[Kyle Spaans]

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:38:18PM -0400, Eduardo wrote:
> There is some task easy to do for me to start?

It's possible and likely that the Janitors TODO list is out of date.

If you want to find something to do, look around in subsystems for their own
TODO lists, wireless for example:
    http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/todo-list
and you should find ideas that are more specific and up to date.

Aside from that, to get ideas, you can read an operating systems textbook. Find
an area of the kernel that you think is interesting then start _reading_ code.

gl & hf

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Re: Starting in the project

[walter harms]

Eduardo schrieb:
> Hi, I'm trying to enter in kernel janitors project to learn more about
> kernel and to be a developer.
> I'm in TODO page, but I don't know where to start. It's being a kind
> of weird at first glance to me.
> There is some task easy to do for me to start?
> 
> 

read Documentaion/*txt (+ any additional docs you may find)
try to understand what they want and if it is still valid. Most times
documentation is not the first priority for programmers but it is a
nice starting point for beginner and an easy way to get some patches
into the linux-kernel (by fixed wrong/out-dated docs).

re,
 wh

Re: Starting in the project

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Eduardo <dutche@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to enter in kernel janitors project to learn more about
> kernel and to be a developer.
> I'm in TODO page, but I don't know where to start. It's being a kind
> of weird at first glance to me.
> There is some task easy to do for me to start?
>

Another way you could help is cloning the last linux-next tree located
at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git.
Then you could try compiling with differents configurations and see if
any problem/warning arises.

i.e:

# git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
# make randconfig
# make 2> warnings.log
# cat warnings.log

Also the staging drivers located at drivers/staging/ are a great place
for janitors/beginners. Those are drivers that compile but need some
work and cleaning before been accepted in mainline. Look at the TODO
files for the drivers to see what work is needed. The easiest job is
looking at the coding style if it is following the coding style
specified at /Documentation/CodingStyle.txt.

Best regards,

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Javier Martínez Canillas
+595 981 88 66 58
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